Seattle fans have had a frustrating season so far, victimized by a couple of late goals and a strange scheduling quirk.
One of those late goals came from a controversial call Thursday at Dallas. The only person I’ve seen defending Terry Vaughn’s call is MLSSoccer’s Simon Borg, dissecting the video here:
So we hear that Seattle fans may make some sort of protest. Or not. Judging by what we’re seeing at BigSoccer, cooler heads have prevailed.
And that’s good, for several reasons:
1. Refs are human. No league operates without complaint. I’m still bitter about a few calls in last week’s Inter-Barca game, frankly.
2. This call was a tough one. Borg says Seattle’s Leo Gonzalez stepped on Jason Yeisley’s foot. Borg is surely outvoted (maybe we’ll take a poll here just to see), but it’s not an unreasonable point of view. And that’s after viewing several replays — Vaughn gets one look in real time.
3. Vaughn wasn’t the one who embellished (at best) or flat-out dived. That would be Yeisley.
So why get all worked up about someone who made a mistake — or not, according to Borg — in one of the most difficult, thankless jobs on Earth?
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If anyone has reason to gripe in the issue, it’s Kansas City fans – after losing to Seattle on a call that was truly wrong, not merely questionable.
Karma has a way of evening things out in the end, so I’m thinking that Seattle is set..
Here’s what Seattle fans should do: buck up. Things like this are part of life in the big league. You know, where they’ve been for all of 57 weeks or something.
Funny thing about that, Jason — surely the officiating wasn’t somehow better in USL and the A-League, right?
The USSF admitted on several occasions last year that refs got calls wrong against DC United that resulted directly in result-changing goals. I feel no sympathy.
Actually, I wish the call had been worse. At least defenders were near Yeisley when he went down. This isn’t even close to the kind of egregiously bad call we’re used to in MLS.